All Souls Day - November 2

Special Feast Days
All Souls Day – November 2
All Souls Day has great significance for us. It is the day when we pray for all the faithful and all the souls who have died and possibly are in Purgatory. It is also the day when the Church – with the tact proper to her – reminds us of the reality of death. On the one side, the Church points to a cliff under our feet and makes us see a multitude of souls who are in a state of punishment and suffering. On the other, she shows us the misery of death, its destruction of the body and the misery of the soul that does not go straight to Heaven. It would be beautiful to see in the All Souls Day's liturgy some phrases of Job, the lamentations of a man on the edge of madness who falls into the jaws of death, entirely isolated, with his bones calcinated, his flesh reduced to dust and the bitter weeping that inundates the soul separated from the body. It would be good to see reminded in the liturgy the misery of that sinner installed in a place of …